She was born Anna Katharina Fischer in
Nuremberg. According to Houbraken she was the daughter of the flower painter
Johann Thomas Fischer who taught her to paint. She was good at painting flowers in water colors and in oils, and taught the Duchess
Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the wife of the
Duke August von Sachsen, and their daughters in
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt in the 1660s. in 1664 and was still alive when
Joachim von Sandrart was writing his
Teutsche Academie, which is where Houbraken took his data from. She died in
Regensburg in 1719. ==References==